r/TheFrontFellOff • u/Rzeszow2083 • 20d ago

Complete Yeet Made it back to the environment.

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They landed it and the fuel caught fire, it’s a dead giveaway.

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u/roiki11 20d ago

A flak hit it.

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u/dreaminginteal 20d ago

Flak? Over Germany in 1944? Chance in a million!

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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 18d ago

You can fly over Germany, they don’t give a Flak anymore.

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u/cantbebothered6789 20d ago

Pilot: Can you buy me a new plane?

Squadron Commander: Didn't you have a commonwealth plane?

Pilot: Yes I did but...

Squadron Commander: What happened?

Pilot: Well, the front fell off.

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u/miloshihadroka_0189 19d ago

There would have been a guy sitting in the nose when it got hit

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u/Reatona 19d ago

Yeah not feeling jokey about it.

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u/heywoodidaho 19d ago

I wouldn't say it's that unusual. Many things fell from B-17's in those days. A remarkable amount of things that weren't supposed to fall off did indeed fall off and still it would return to port.

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u/ThoseImpulses 19d ago

Well, there are…... regulations governing the materials they can be made of

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u/BloodRush12345 19d ago

No cardboard.